If you weren’t at Shoptalk in Las Vegas last week, you missed a great conference. Shoptalk has evolved into a must-attend retail event with more than 8,000 attendees and growing, a destination where retailers and brands go to learn and collaborate and where networking opportunities are key.

Office Depot and Alibaba.com announced the formation of a strategic collaboration aimed at helping small businesses in the United States. The partnership combines Office Depot’s relationships and understanding of U.S. businesses with Alibaba.com’s global network.

While stamp pricing has been relatively weak in the last few years, it is not universally so. The Scandinavian countries have suffered less than most due to their responsible issuing policies that don't exploit collector interest.

We are living in a time of radical transformation as the retail ecosystem continues to change at an accelerated pace. Although there are doomsayers who look at store closings as the harbingers of worse to come, retail is actually expanding, consumers are shopping and sales are up.

Brett Hurt, the co-founder and CEO of data.world, talks with Workday's Leighanne Levensaler about how the smart use of data changes a company's culture, the early days of e-commerce, and how data.world has created the world's largest collaborative data community.

While industries may be close to hitting the peak of what their supply chains can do, there is another, very different solution to getting products into consumers’ hands. It’s called the demand chain, and it will soon replace the processes that have been around for decades.

Over the last two decades there have been two major inflection points caused by omnichannel: the rise of price and inventory transparency, and the impact of mobile. The third great shift is now upon us, and will drive retailer success – or failure – in 2019.

Symphony of the Seas includes over 20 restaurants, water slides, an ice rink, Broadway shows, live music, comedy clubs, Royal Suites with your own Genie, and luxury shopping with Cartier, Bulgari and Hublot boutiques. Still, it's more evolutionary than revolutionary. We give you a first hand tour.

The toy category is a lot of fun these days. Toy sales are robust, an iconic retailer liquidated, retail brands are rising from the dead, new retail formats are being tested, online and offline sales are blurring, and there’s disruption everywhere in the category.

A look at the state of malls, which are facing near-record-high vacancy rates and declining foot traffic. Oliver Chen, managing director of retail and luxury at Cowen, provides a three-part recipe to revitalize and invigorate malls to make them relevant again in their communities.

“While some artists inevitably go up and down in the rankings, especially when it comes to second best, there are exceptionally few rediscoveries of slumbering giants.” David Ekserdjian, PhD, University of Leicester